The relation between the activity of the nervous system and resistance to disease may be illustrated by facts of different sorts. ... Hoffmann also made fear and the adynamy resulting from it play an important part as the predisposing cause of contagious diseases. Tuke believed, in particular, in the influence of fear upon the contagion of rabies. The breaking out of rabies has sometimes been observed after violent emotion.(Adynamy = lockdown.)
I tried upon a considerable number of animals - pigeons, rabbits, and mice - the effect of fear, which was excited by means of noise or threatening motions.The author also included some detailed observations of leucocytes (T-cells). When the blood vessels are constricted from fear, the big T-cells have a harder time getting through to where they're needed, and don't do a good job of eating bacteria and viruses. I don't know if this observation was later verified or disproved, but it seems like a simple explanation.
Animals, some of which had been left at rest and others frightened, were injected with cultivations of pathogenic microbes. In all the experiments, without exception, the frightened animals died first.
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